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COVID-19 outbreaks at three extended care facilities in the state have led to 10 deaths, 59 residents testing positive and 35 staffers coming down with the virus, the state announced Wednesday at Gov. Chris Sununu’s press conference in Concord.
Saying they are optimistic they can still hold the 97th Progressive Laconia Motorcycle Week in June, the board of directors of the annual gathering said it will make a decision no later than April 30 on whether or not to postpone the event until the end of August.
Gov. Chris Sununu announced at a news conference on Monday that he is shutting down hotels, motels and short-term home rentals like Airbnbs to help stop the spread of COVID-19 except for essential workers and vulnerable populations.
As the COVID-19 continues to spread across the state with 540 sickened and seven dead, Gov. Chris Sununu announced the state now has 14 makeshift medical surge facilities completed to deal with the projected need in the coming weeks.
As the state announced 21 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan agreed it must have been a tough call for Republican Gov. Chris Sununu to issue a stay-at-home order Thursday that closes all non-essential businesses by Friday at midnight.
Several questions were about federal stimulus money.
As many people scrambled to restructure their lives in the new reality of restrictions during New Hampshire’s COVID-19 State of Emergency, many people were also heading to stores that sell guns and ammunition.
A man from Rockingham County who traveled recently to Europe is the state’s sixth presumptive positive case of COVID-19.
Without discussion, the council unanimously voted on an expedited contract to accept $5 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the purposes of addressing the COVID-19 virus which is effective immediately.
An employee of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon who returned from Italy within the past week tested positive in the state laboratory Monday morning for COVID-19, the first case in New Hampshire, officials confirmed at a news conference hours later.
The Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee tabled a $46 million education grant on Friday, the third time it has voted on what would expand the number of charter schools in New Hampshire, but the issue isn’t going away soon.
Senate President Donna Soucy said: “We will work with the governor when we can, but he has yet to demonstrate his own bipartisanship following a year of record-breaking vetoes—most on bills that had bipartisan support…”
Just an oak ballot box that since 1892 has been collecting the paper ballots on election day with a hand crank. Yup, it’s still used today. Then the ballots are counted by hand.
So-called ‘Right to Work’ legislation went down in the state Senate Thursday, while they agreed to permit qualified patients and their caregivers the right to grow their own cannabis and gave seniors an automatic drop in Medicare premiums if they become available.
Using money the state received from its settlement with Volkswagen, Manchester will swap out about 14 diesel school buses and replace them with cleaner ones that use propane.
The governor was ‘sickened’ by the vote, which he said was democrats playing politics. Democrats reasoned that this grant would not help existing schools and only burden the future of the state’s education costs by creating new charter schools. Next steps are unclear.
The Executive Council approved DraftKings to be the single vendor of sports betting in New Hampshire at its busy pre-Thanksgiving meeting Monday.
NH Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut said the grant would give both public charter and traditional district schools a chance to try new ways to reach students most at risk.
Sanders said the political, economic and media establishments four years ago thought his ideas were “so radical” that they would never fly.
The marble halls were lined with supporters shouting “Pete! Pete!” as he made his way to the Secretary of State’s office where the national press waited to record the filing.